Prospero

• The Ivy..

  The Ivy that had hid my princely trunk
• mine own library with volumes I prize above my dukedom

  -John Dee: renaissance polymath and adviser of Queen Elizabeth who has also been robbed of ’ library’

  • Rudolf the second: Roman emperor keen on learning but an irresponsable ruler
• Your take sir would cure deafness

  -mirror of the knighthood literature: Spanish romance where a faster who does magic escapes into an island with his children after the death of his wife

  -mannoni’s theory: Prospero complex in a colonial interpretation to show his paternal superiority and control
• Malignant thing, my delicate Ariel

  -1946 RSC production: ethereal

  -2000 RSC production: black interpretation of caliban fawning for approval from white master

  -machiavelli the prince: control and duplicitous behaviour
• hymen’s..

  pheobus…

  Hymen’s lamp

  pheobus steeds
• Golden age, foison, no name in magistrate

  Plato/more’s utopic society
• If dost break her virgin knot

  -Thompson: prospero’s legacy thro offspring

  -treatise of spousals by Swinburne: marriage can be dissolved if sex has been done or no dowry paid
• My tricksy..

  my c…

  My tricksy spirit

  my chick
• in rarer action…

  Rarer action in virtue than in vengeance
• My charms I’ll break their sense I’ll restore

  -2018 mason: Ariel acts as a catalyst for prospero to forgive and develop

  -Ovid metamorphosis
• I’ll break my staff, drown my books

  -Peter pick: Ariel can be more powerful
• We are such..

  We are such stuff dreams are made on
• Rounded…

  Rounded with sleep
• We are such stuff dreams are made on

  -James 1 Shakespeare performed to him: a manifestation of entertainment and our hopes